Northern and
Western Luzon will experience mostly cloudy
skies with scattered rainshowers and
thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have
partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with
isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in
the afternoon or evening.
Tuesday’s Cabinet
meeting produced an order from President Gloria Arroyo
on clustering national social-welfare programs
addressing soaring food and oil prices. Around her were
five members of her official family. Malacañang Photo
Increase could take effect by Thursday or Friday –
LTFRB
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has approved the proposed P1-fare increase for public
transport, the agency’s acting director general, Augusto Santos,
reported Tuesday.
TOYAKO, Japan: Leaders of the Group of Eight powers warned Tuesday
that soaring oil and food prices pose a “serious challenge” to
world economic growth, calling for boosted crude production
capacity.
Power firm appeals for environmental advocates to
stick to the facts and respect the law
BACOLOD CITY: Power company, Energy Development
Corp. (EDC) urged environmentalists to respect the law allowing them
to conduct geothermal development expansion at the buffer zone of
Mount Kanlaon Natural Park. The company aims to provide Negros
Occidental with sufficient energy within a couple of years.
NANTES, France: Frenchman Romain Feillu took the biggest accolade of
his career Monday when a successful breakaway that foxed the
sprinters’ teams handed him the Tour de France yellow jersey
Monday.
It's mind over machine: a US high-tech company has created a headset allowing computer game lovers to use their thoughts to move mountains and make objects disappear on screen.
ON July 2, a former senator who once ran as a Green candidate for
president in Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt, and 14 other hostages were
freed from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The
rescue, which was shown in all its real-life drama on TV channels
all over the world, is hailed as a daring and effective operation
carried out by Colombian military commandos. The Colombian security
forces tricked the FARC into believing they were a leftist
non-governmental organization.
BANGKOK: Nearly two years after he was deposed by a
military coup,
former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday underwent trial on
corruption charges in the first of many cases against his family and
aides.
In terms of sexual climax, women have great
reason to envy men. Figuring out how to bring men to their peak is
as idiot-friendly as operating an old jukebox: just insert, push and
play.
